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associate,n.1. A colleague or companion. 2. A junior member of an organization or profession; esp., a lawyer in a law firm, usu. with fewer than a certain number of years in practice, who may, upon  achieving  the  requisite  se-niority,  receive  an  offer  to  become  a  partner  or  shareholder.  — Also termed associate attorney. 3.Hist. English…

assizor. See ASSIZER.[Blacks Law 8th]

assize utrum (yoo-tr<<schwa>>m). [Latin] Hist. A writ to determine whether land claimed by a church was held by lay or spiritual tenure. • This writ is named after its emphatic word, which required  the  fact-finder  to  determine  whether  (utrum)  the  land  belonged  to  the  church.  —  Also termed (erroneously) assize of utrum; assize de utrum.…

Assizes   de   Jerusalem   (<<schwa>>-sIz-<<schwa>>z   d<<schwa>>   j<<schwa>>-roo-s<< schwa>>-l<<schwa>>m). A code of feudal law intended to serve as the law of the lands conquered by  the  Crusaders.  •  The  code  was  prepared  in  the  12th  century  after  the  1099  conquest  of Jerusalem.[Blacks Law 8th]

assizer,n. Hist. 1.A member of a grand assize. See grand assize under ASSIZE(5).2.Scots law. A juror. 3. One  having  custody of the standards of weight and  measure; esp.,  one  who fixes the assize  of  bread,  ale,  and  other  items  of  general  consumption.  —  Also  spelled  assizor;  assiser; assisor.[Blacks Law 8th]

assize (<<schwa>>-sIz), n.1. A session of a court or council. maiden assize.Hist. 1.An assize in  which no  prisoner is  sentenced to  death. 2.  An assize in which the sheriff presents the judges with white gloves because there are no prisoners to try. • This practice stemmed from a custom in which a prisoner who was…

assisted suicide.See SUICIDE.[Blacks Law 8th]

assisted self-determination.See assisted suicide under SUICIDE.[Blacks Law 8th]

assisted   reproductive   technology.Family   law.   Any   medical   means   of   aiding   human reproduction,  esp.  through  laboratory  procedures.  —  Abbr.  ART.  —  Also  termed  assisted reproduction; assisted-reproductive therapy.[Blacks Law 8th]

assisted  conception.Family  law.  The  fertilization  of  a  woman’s  egg  with  a  man’s  sperm  by some  means  other  than  sexual  intercourse.  See  ARTIFICIAL  INSEMINATION  ;  IN  VITRO FERTILIZATION;         GAMETE         INTRA-FALLOPIAN         TRANSFER;         ZYGOTE INTRAFALLOPIAN TRANSFER .[Blacks Law 8th]